Quote#Love
As lines, so loves oblique may well
Quote byAndrew Marvell · 1621–1678
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Miscellaneous Poems (1681), The Definition of Love, stanzas 7 and 8.
English (original)
As lines, so loves oblique may well Themselves in every angle greet; But ours so truly parallel, Though infinite, can never meet.Therefore the love which us doth bind, But Fate so enviously debars, Is the conjunction of the mind, And opposition of the stars.
— Andrew Marvell
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